infer
verb (used with object)
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.
had inferred
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past perfectof infer.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Severs had inferred from White that it was the prime suspects.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2023
I could see him moody, difficult, irritable perhaps, but not angry as she had inferred, not passionate.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Without knowing anything exactly about it, she had inferred that in some way Conny had treated Tom "badly," and she had not seen him the last times she had been at the Woodyards'.
From Together by Robert Herrick
The story surmises that, having carefully read every word of the letter, he chose this way of letting Gwen know of a fluctuation in Adrian's eye-symptoms; which, he had inferred, would not reach her otherwise.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
She had inferred that he wrote it after leaving her, thus revenging himself upon her by further scarification of the friend for whom she had pleaded.
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
